Italian High Renaissance Painter, 1450-1517 He turned to painting c. 1485, and his first works already testify to the considerable technical accomplishment and gentle religious sensibility that remained constants of his art. His major surviving paintings are altarpieces, mostly images of the Virgin and saints, initially done for Bologna and later for nearby centres, notably Parma, Modena, Ferrara and Lucca. He also painted many small-scale devotional works and a few portraits. The apochryphal anecdote reported by Vasari that Francia died on seeing Raphael's altarpiece of St Cecilia   Related Paintings of FRANCIA, Francesco :. | The Marriage of St Cecily sds | Madonna and Saints whh | Crucifixion with Sts John and Jerome de | Evangelista Scappi dh | The Burial of St Cecily dfs |
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charles burney
Period: Classical (1750-1819) Country: England Born: April 07, 1726 Died: April 12, 1814 in Chelsea
Vincent Sellaer
painted Leda with Swan and Children in1st half of 16th century